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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 37
28.06.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 37 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Autoportrait, vers sa vingt-et-unième année

pencil on paper

5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (14.1 x 10.8 cm.)

Executed circa 1855





Provenance

The artist's estate.

Odette De Gas & Roland Nepveu, Paris, by descent from the above.

Hélène, Jean & Arlette Nepveu-Degas, and thence by descent; sale, Collection Nepveu-Degas, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 December 1994, lot 15.

Jan Krugier, Geneva, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2014, lot 101.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

J. Nepveu-Degas, La Jeune Parque: Huit sonnets d’Edgar Degas, Paris, 1946 (illustrated on the frontispiece).

P. Velery, Degas, Danse, Dessin, Paris, 1965, no. 98, p. 250 (illustrated fig. 98; dated ‘circa 1854’).



Exhibited

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, May - August 1999, no. 100, p. 214 (illustrated p. 215); this exhibition later travelled to:

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Timeless Eye, Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, September - December 1999, no. 116, p. 246 (illustrated on the cover; illustrated again p. 247);

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin tiempo: Dibugos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Collección Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier Poniatowski, February - May 2000, no. 128, p. 288 (illustrated p. 289);

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin: Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, March - June 2002, no. 113, p. 250 (illustrated p. 251);

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das ewige Auge - von Rembrandt bis Picasso: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July - October 2007, no. 112, p. 240 (illustrated p. 241).

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, October 2017 - January 2018, no. 15, p. 243 (illustrated full page p. 45; illustrated again fig. 24, p. 48); this exhibition later travelled to Denver Art Museum, February - May 2018.



Post Lot Text

Theodore Reff has stated that, in his opinion, this work is by the hand of Edgar Degas.
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Applied technique:Pencil
Medium:Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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